Workout environments ✅ help or ❌ hinder our progress. 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 Depending on your goals and preferred workout styles (e.g., group classes, free weights), you may bounce around different gym memberships to determine the best workout environment for you. Take this client for example. After months of tinkering with: 💼—Work schedules (🌞 vs. 🌚 ) 🎟️—Memberships […]
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It’s no secret that weight training is associated with many health benefits and is recommended by most health organizations. When it comes to data and tracking, weightlifting movements, like any other observable behavior or goal, can be analyzed like no other. Fitness Intelligence Reveals Insights Fitness intelligence refers to making your health and fitness data
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Calorie tracking apps are endless in any online store. Each has their own flavor of tracking, data entry, and visuals. A good looking app may help make it easier to engage with and use the app, however, the interplay between client expectations and what they see is equally important. Within range or out of range?
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Health information abounds and comes at us from all directions: social media, friends, the news, and public health announcements when we are lucky. Even as a trained researcher, keeping up with the latest trends and effective interventions is challenging. However, before we can even evaluate any article or health recommendation tidbit, we need to have
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Life happens. I get it. When targeting certain aspects of our health and fitness, significant life events are just another set of variables to contribute to or take away from our goals. Determining the extent to which each life event (e.g., marriage, graduation, a new job) affects our well-being can be left to guesswork, or
Weightlifting requires strength, patience, & discipline. Strength because you are building muscle and increasing personal bests. Patience because results take time. And discipline because you have to show up, and engage in lots of behavior, on a consistent schedule. Consistency is all well and good but the frequency at which you contact reinforcement is the
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Behavior analysts analyze data over periods of times. This tactic is a foundational skill for any practitioner or health coach out there. Consider this chart below. Because my clients and I collect data every day, over long periods of time, we have the privilege of understanding how the environment supports or inhibits any health and
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Big results require big behavior. A couple weeks ago, Jasmine and I realized that we hit a wall. That is, her current physical activity and fitness environment was not promoting a more active lifestyle. Catch phrases, like “move, more” or “Take 10,000 steps per day” were not enough to prompt the desired behavior. Take a
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Another year, another CrossFit Open. At the time of the blog, we are already 2/3 weeks through The Open. …oh, hang on sec. What is The Open? The CrossFit Games Open is the annual, international competition that seeks to crown the fittest in the world. Go here for all the details. This competition lets the
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Goal-setting Helped Eliminate Cigarette Smoking As a behavior scientist, sometimes you never know what targets you will work on or with whom. Enter a former client. I worked with Melissa (name changed) for well over a year, until she needed to take a break in services. See, she went through a stressful life event, and
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